Rodney Stuckey available for Detroit Pistons, in a bench role, against Milwaukee Bucks

AP PhotoDetroit's Rodney Stuckey makes his first appearance since a Jan. 4 loss to Chicago when he comes off the bench tonight in Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE – Rodney Stuckey will
play for the Detroit Pistons tonight after missing four consecutive
games with a pulled groin.

Stuckey is expected to come off
the bench for the Pistons in the 8 p.m. game against the Milwaukee
Bucks.

“Whatever coach wants me to do,”
Stuckey said. “If he wants me out there for 30, I guess I'm going
to fight through it and play 30 minutes. I'm just going to fight
through it. I'm not really going to worry about it. I'll probably
feel it here and there but I'm just going to play through it.”

Stuckey originally was injured in
the Pistons' last win, Jan. 2 win over the Orlando Magic. He tried
to play in the first half of the next game, against Chicago, but did
not play in the second half of that game, or any of the next four.

Stuckey said certain moves, such
as hard cuts and defensive stances, still bother him.

“I've just got to play through
it,” he said.

The point guard said it was
difficult to watch the losing streak, which included the first time
in Pistons history that the team lost four consecutive games by 16
points or more, while thinking he could have helped the team.

“We've just got to play
together,” he said. “We've got to execute. We haven't really
been on the same page with a lot of things, defensively and
offensively. We really haven't had a flow. That's pretty much what
it's been.”

Stuckey has spent a lot of time
lately with Arnie Kander, the Pistons' strength and conditioning
coach.

“He knows everything and he has
a solution for everything,” Stuckey said. “Just a lot of
treatment, lot of ice, lot of stim (electric stimulation), lot of
anti-inflammatory cream, all that kind of stuff that Arnie's got.”

Stuckey said as much as he wanted
to play, taking care of his body early in the season was “most
important.”

“I don't want to be out there,
hopping on one leg, making a fool of myself,” he said. “But I
think I'm to the point now that I can fight through the pain and go
out there and play.”